[cumbria_lug] Observations

[Russ Phillips]

jenruss+jen at mail.plus.net wrote:

>>But the average
>>box running NT4 or Win98 is nowhere near capable enough to run a
>>modern desktop Linux, so companies have to buy new hardware anyway.
> 
> We had SuSE 8.1 running on my friend's computer a while ago, with whatever
> KDE that came with. I can't quite remember what spec it was, but it's
> certainly nothing more than a P2. It took a while to boot, but was
> otherwise quite happy. I do see your point, though.

Just thought I'd chip in with some details, since I'm geeky enough to 
have noticed/cared :-)

The box was a 500MHz AMD K6/2 with 128MB RAM
We installed SuSE 8.1 with KDE 3.0. SuSE came with OpenOffice.org 1.0.3, 
which we upgraded to OOo 1.1

Russ